Product Details

• Actors: Carroll O'Connor, Jean Stapleton, Rob Reiner, Sally Struthers, Mike Evans
• Format: Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC
• Language: English
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 10
• Studio: Sony Pictures
• VHS Release Date: November 24, 1998
• Run Time: 30 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 0767826000
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #351,682 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

"Archie Goes To The Big House" Includes: Archie Learns His Lesson Archie In The Lockup Archie Sees a Mugging "The Rise And Fall Of Meathead" Includes: Edith's Accident Mike's Appendix Mikes' Problem "Archie Tells It Like It Is" Includes: Archie And The Editorial Writing The President The Man In The Street "Hot Pants Vs. Meathead" Includes: Judging Books By Covers Gloria discovers Women's Lib Gloria Poses In The Nude "Those Were The Days" Include: Archie And Edith Alone Second Honeymoon Black Is The Color Of My True Love's Wig "In The Family Way" Includes: Gloria's Pregnancy The First And Last Supper The Bunkers And The Swingers

"Sammy Takes Bunker Hill" Includes: Sammy's Visit' Maude The Very Moving Day "Archie Meets Meathead"

Includes: Meet The Bunkers Lionel Moves Into The Neighborhood Flashback: Mike Meets Archie "Dingbats Liberation" Includes: The Threat Archie The Hero Archie Goes Too Far "Citizen Archie"

Includes: Sucess Story The Elevator Story Edith Has Jury Duty

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars 10-Tape VHS Collection .... 30 Great "All In The Family" Episodes With Archibald Bunker And Company!, December 8, 2001

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David Von Pein (Mooresville, Indiana; USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: All in the Family [VHS] (VHS Tape)

"All In The Family" has got to be one of the best and funniest TV programs ever made. As is usually the case with long-running television series, however, the first few seasons seem to always be better in quality than the later shows. I think AITF falls into this pattern as well. Not that the late '70s programs weren't entertaining, but in my opinion the shows from the early seasons (many of which we find in this 10-Tape VHS boxed set) were the cream of the "Archie Bunker" crop, and absolutely hysterical.

Each videotape in this VHS collection contains three episodes (from various seasons of the series). But these versions, unfortunately, have been edited, with a few minutes cut out of each show. Video and audio quality are pretty decent however. Just don't expect complete, uncut episodes here. For full-length programs, you'll have to get the complete-season DVD sets.

Mr. A. Bunker (played to bigoted perfection by Carroll O'Connor) had more "bite" in the early programs from 1971 to about 1974, before being "softened" more in the latter years of the series. His stinging remarks on virtually any subject you can imagine provided the show's executives with some sweaty palms, no doubt, in those early days of the series. They probably weren't quite sure how the American public was going to react to this opinionated blowhard from Queens. I'm glad, though, that the majority of viewers loved him, instead of hated him.

Then there's Gloria ("Little Girl"), Edith ("Dingbat"), and Mike ("Meathead"). Everybody in this cast was terrific, including the neighbors, "The Jeffersons". An all-around Classic TV show, to be enjoyed again and again.

Trivia from Episode #1 ..... Watch and listen carefully to some of the racy and spicy dialogue (for its day) from this debut episode from January 1971. I can just envision the CBS censors reaching for the suicide pills as this program ran for the first time. Archie, during the debut program, introduces the American television audience to such vivid terms as ..... Spic, Spade, Heeb, and Yid. Listen to the live studio audience literally gasp out loud when Archie uses "Yid" for the first time.

One of my favorite "Archie-isms" occurs in the episode where The Jeffersons move in next door -- Archie, in his usual "subtle" manner, conveys to the family how he feels about the new family on the block: "Well we'll see how great it is when the watermelon rinds come flyin' out the windows!!"

~LOL!~

I've also always enjoyed Archie's sensible and intelligent views on how to solve the problem of all those early-1970s airplane hijackings -- "The solution is very simple," exclaims Mr. Bunker confidently. "You simply arm all your passengers. At the beginning of the trip, just pass out the pistols, and then collect them again at the end of the flight."*

* = Classic Archie Bunker logic. Think the FAA would go along with Archie on this today? :)

Long live Archie Bunker and "All In The Family" in reruns (and on VHS and DVD)!

18 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars All in the Family 10 pack, September 29, 2000

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Michael (Demotte, IN United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: All in the Family [VHS] (VHS Tape)

If you are an All in the Family fan then this pack is for you. You get 10 great videos with 3 episodes each. Plus the best part is their are no commercial interruptions.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars AITFC 10 PAK, August 17, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: All in the Family [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Fabulous collection of AITFC series! No comedy series since AITFC can make us laugh, cry, acknowledge our prejudices and deliver such great social commentary. I've watched each episode probably 100 times and I always get a laugh and the best part is -- no commercials!